Fragility and conflict

Disaster risk reduction in a context of exposure to risk combined with insufficient coping capacity of the state, system and/or communities to manage, absorb or mitigate those risks.

Latest Fragility and conflict additions in the Knowledge Base

The concurrence of environmental degradation, worsening climatic change, and widespread violence has underpinned a multitude of claims, mostly in public policy circles and by journalists, that these conflicts are the world’s first “climate wars.”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Despite the potential of Early warning system access to reduce disaster-related losses by $35 billion annually, about one-third of the global population remains without it, a gap widened in areas affected by conflict or fragility.
World Bank, the
Adults and children walking through flooded streets in Pakistan
This article covers how Libya and other flood-hit countries, especially in conflict zones, could learn a lot from Pakistan, where the plans for recovery from similar floods in 2022 differ in some significant ways.
Conversation Media Group, the
A cargo ship traverses rough seas off the coast of Shanghai
For the first time, the world faces simultaneous disruptions in two major global maritime trade waterways, with far-reaching implications for inflation and food and energy security.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
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Disruptions that affect international shipping have the potential to reshape global maritime networks and reconfigure the world trading map. This UNCTAD rapid assessment looks into the situation of global maritime networks and shipping amid crisis.
Tackling these compounding crises and strengthening healthcare could stop the ancient killer spreading into new territories.
Telegraph Media Group Limited
A Thai farmer waters crops with a rubber hose
Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol urges game-changing solutions to break the vicious loop between climate crisis, conflict, and hunger.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
Fragility and Conflict
Drawing on emerging best practices, a team provided in-depth training to regional and municipal officials in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao on how to design conflict-sensitive disaster recovery frameworks.
World Bank, the

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